Armed to Get On

We’ve got fields

Full of missiles

In silos asleep

Hidden from view

But ready to leap

Cold creatures of doom

Mindless of power

Insulting nature

Built to devour

We let bombers fly high

In the sky over us

We put people in power

We  give ‘em  our trust

But how can we tell

From their television eyes

That the mission they're on

Is for  saving lives

Where is the will to stop building the bomb

Why can’t we see it’s time to disarm

All that power and wealth

May be shiny and bold

And everyone's dreams

Should be free to unfold

But oligarchs and patriarchs

Got us armed to the teeth

Cartoonin’ planet earth

With unreal belief.

Where is the will to stop building the bomb

Why can’t we see it’s time to disarm

So from millions of years

We might come down to this

A goodbye to God

With the nuclear kiss

The Devil will greet us

All hell will break loose

Sowing nuclear seed

To reap nuclear fruit

Where is the will to stop building the bomb

Why can’t we see it’s time to disarm

Where is the courage to put history behind

To live beyond home, to be of one kind

To know we are mortal and life is our luck

To stop all our strutting with flags and that stuff?

© Armell